Code
01P14811
Looptijd
01-10-2011 → 30-09-2015
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Onderzoeksdisciplines
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Natural sciences
- Evolutionary biology
- General biology
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Humanities and the arts
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
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Social sciences
- General pedagogical and educational sciences
- Communication sciences
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Medical and health sciences
- Social medical sciences
Trefwoorden
causale verklaringen
filosofie van de geneeskunde
wetenschappelijk inzicht
Projectomschrijving
I will analyze how medical science tries to achieve scientific understanding of health problems by investigating (1) the characteristics, necessity and peculiarities of scientific understanding in medicine, and (2) how medical scientists try to make sense of disease states for which (part of) the causal information is missing.